R Observatory: Metrics for VirtualPop version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

VirtualPop

2.1.0

Simulation of Populations by Sampling Waiting-Time Distributions

1packages depend

6.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Frans WillekensFirst published 2022-06-233 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Constructs a virtual population from fertility and mortality rates for any country, calendar year and birth cohort in the Human Mortality Database https://www.mortality.org and the Human Fertility Database https://www.humanfertility.org. Fertility histories are simulated for every individual and their offspring, producing a multi-generation virtual population.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("VirtualPop", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("willekens/VirtualPop")

Development version from willekens/VirtualPop. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-virtualpop

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-VirtualPop

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-VirtualPop

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 77%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,125 · ~18/day · ~536/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

14130 days

1.2K90 days

6.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ willekens/virtualpop

11Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

43Commits

3Contributors

demographylife-historiesmultistate-modelssimulation

43 commits · Last activity 2023-06-22

Stars over time

2024-04-30 · 102026-07-07 · 11

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/willekens/virtualpop on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (2)

msm HMDHFDplus

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

knitr kableExtra ggplot2foreignlubridate xml2 ehasurvivalsurvminer rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Families

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Frans Willekens

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Frans Willekens

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Tim Riffe

Contributor

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.1.0Latest
2025-04-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.2
2022-06-23
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-06-23
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 113 KB / 3 files
Download size: 689 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("VirtualPop")

Format

Willekens, F., & Riffe, T. (2025). VirtualPop: Simulation of Populations by Sampling Waiting-Time Distributions (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.VirtualPop

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for VirtualPop version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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